My pleasure, I assure you.

My apologies and you've answered it thoroughly. I blame a distraction from about 3 hours ago that was quite cute and looked amazing through a beer bottle. Thus, my fault. You asked a question I felt you already had the answer to, and was hoping for the clarification you've already made.

My personal opinion, and that's all it is before I get swamped in PMs, an opinion, is that a majority of the tech wars revolve around two concepts. What is the most usable for a particular user, and what a techie is most involved with for their continued career. There are outliers to be sure of people stuck in one tech who desperately wish they could use another to provide solutions, but I find those people to be rare and not zealots that are usually found in the tech/religious wars.

I will support SQL Server until it dies. Why? I've based my continued career around it. I will advocate it's TCO, its adaptability, and the ease of finding lower level (and thus cheaper) support for it than the majority of other platforms. I'll also tell a client to hire an Access developer on occassion and leave my number should they grow at some point. Our newbies need work too. 😉

The end result is that our clients must use our products. They decide what they want. Windows 8, as much as it annoys me in simply its display, is based on countless hours of marketing research. Someone must want this thing. I'll wait for the next server deploy, personally. The tool we make them with means nothing until the user is happy. The rest is who got hired to build it, Bob the <sometechhere> guru... or me.